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DISD Super countdown

We noted at our morning staff meeting that the next milestone in the DISD superintendent search is a week from tomorrow, when the trustees are supposed to narrow the list of applicants and decide which ones to interview. I’m assuming they will get background info on them before then. Sure would like to know the names on that list right now.

Some of those names may have come courtesy of Education Secretary Arne Duncan via Mayor Mike Rawlings. You can read about that and many other details of the mayor’s involvement with the search here, in one of Robert Wilonsky’s first bylines as a DMN staffer. Just writing those words, “Robert Wilonsky” and “DMN” in the same sentence makes it a great day.

Back to the superintendent: The editorial department has put a lot of BS&T into providing info and perspective for this search. You can read that archive here. Based on our research, and speaking for myself, not the entire board, here are some candidates who intrigue me:

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